This is the start of an 8-part series on building a Certificate Authority using Active Directory Certificate Services in Windows Server 2019. The process is quite involved, but with this guide and planning on your part, you should be able to build this important infrastructure component with ease.

LaTeX is a powerful typesetting language that has been used for decades by people looking to create documents without needing to worry about the look of it. I have been using it for the last few years for important documents, and I wanted to integrate it with my favourite editor prior to undertaking a large project using it.

Just another critical step that SpaceX needed to complete for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. As usual they nailed the test.

I liked Windows 7 a lot, it was a great operating system that I deployed and supported very early in my IT career. An end of an era, but it had to happen.

Once again, I made a promise to myself that I would post a lot more often to this site, but once again a lot of things got in the way, and I wasn’t able to get as much done as I hoped. I was doing very well in the earlier part of the year, but after the middle of April I ran into a lot of issues that prevented me from focusing my attention on the site.

As with all SpaceX launches, I will never not be impressed by how easy they make this look.

It had a good run, but the time has finally run out on Windows XP and all its variants. It was a great OS (eventually), but ultimately it has been succeeded by more modern operating systems and better practices.

In case you have been living under a rock, this thing called DevOps and Automation is a pretty big deal nowadays. The line between Developers, Systems Administrators and Network Administrators is being increasingly blurred, so it is not uncommon to be asked to do code deployments and support when it sort of isn’t something you should be doing.